Episode 46: Water is Deep Enough to Walk On Top

  I returned the wallet to Wang Yong.

  "The water is deep enough." Wang Yong said, with a hint of other meaning in his words.

  "Chang's brother said that his acquaintance in the anti-pickpocketing team told him that the thief who stole your wallet is on this bus. Chang's brother's acquaintance told Chang to tell me to just go and get it back, so I went and got it back. Did you understand?"

  "Chang often said that he told an acquaintance in the anti-pickpocket squad...". Just by looking at Wang Yong's eyes, I knew he had already decided that I was the one who instructed him. He pointed at me with his wallet for half a day and finally managed to squeeze out three words: "You're good!"

  I'm really not that kind of woman who likes you but you don't like me, I'll put a curse on you with my poisonous mouth. At most, I'll just block your phone number, isn't that a very meaningful and kind intention?

  But you're going to misunderstand anyway, so I'm too lazy to explain. Anyway, we won't be seeing each other again in the future.

  Wang Yong held up his wallet towards the light and said, "Why is it all pierced through? It's all transparent..."

  "I don't know."

  "All these documents are tied up like this, you have to give me an explanation!"

  "Cut!" I laughed. "It's good that you've managed to catch up, now go and find out for yourself. I don't owe you anything, this girl isn't serving you anymore!"

  In poetry, I prefer: "Spring flowers and autumn leaves, the sound of horse hooves fades away, echoing soft whispers. Red dust rises high, the world forgets, and we part ways with no chance to meet again."

  We parted ways, leaving behind memories.

  Wang Yong got off at the next stop and made his own way back on a return bus, I suppose even an excellent man like him has his troubles, always having women like me who somewhat like him, although it's not intentional, but still causing him trouble.

  Shi Qian couldn't help but come and gossip, looking at the great opportunity she had created to see if it had taken effect.

  I said: "No way is no way. Some things are forced and won't come, if it weren't for your fuss, we would have had a pretty good farewell."

  "Don't be like that, don't be emotional for now. I'm telling you, he likes you, otherwise he wouldn't have chased after you. His wallet only had a few hundred yuan, a Construction Bank card, several medical business cards, a train ticket, and no ID, basically nothing. And it's so easy to get a replacement Construction Bank card! If he didn't come for you, what else would he be doing here? The question is, have you taken advantage of the opportunity?"

  "Is a train ticket something?"

  "The train ticket will definitely not make it back in time, I'd rather buy another one. I'm telling you, he can barely catch his train if he sends you to the station."

  I shook my head: "He might have a little crush on me, but... well... let's just say that if someone steals from you, even if it's just one dollar, wouldn't you want to get it back no matter what?"

  "It's different, I am..." Qianqian said in a low voice, "It concerns my dignity, won't he... is he also one of us?"

  "Not really, but he's very handy and always on high alert, I think he's been offended even more."

  "So...?" Tiān Qiān thought for a moment, then waved his hand and said, "These are all unimportant, the question is have you made good use of the opportunity?"

  "Thanks a lot," I glared at her, "I've been trying to create an atmosphere, I'm dying to ask him 'will you get in touch with me?' and I've done all this, what more can I do to seize the opportunity?"

  "Maybe it was too subtle, he didn't understand."

  "Thanks, he understood, if he still didn't understand with this explanation, his IQ is too low, can't be helped." I said.

  "Come on, you're just too proud. What's the use of being proud? Can pride help you get married?"

  "I retorted: 'With my qualifications, I can live a good life even if I marry, but living alone is better for me. Why must I marry and find trouble for myself?'"

  "Never mind, I'm leaving."

  "Wait," I called out to her, holding out my palm upwards with my fingers hooked, "Give me back my wallet."

  ……

  Why doesn't he like me enough? How much does he actually like me? How many more degrees of liking is needed for him to confess? I don't know... There are so many questions that I don't know, all I know is that my IQ has been plummeting.

  I just made it clear to Wang Yong that I understood him, but now I'm thinking maybe he really didn't get it? Right? I should be more direct, women should be tougher, like asking him directly: "Either be with me or have 14 holes poked in you, which one do you choose?"...

  After thinking for half a day, I couldn't help but call Wang Yong several times. I wanted to make things clearer to him, but no one answered the phone.

  It wasn't until later that I remembered Wang Yong's cell phone had just been hacked by me...

  It's better to cut off completely, so I won't be tempted to contact you again.

  A small gingko leaf can only hold a small love story, it shouldn't be dragged down by the mud and water, the fallen gingko leaves stained with mud and water, have tarnished the sunshine of an entire season.

  We used to live together in the waterless "old building", we used to work together, although Wang Yong's kind of thing is not called work. I have rejected him, despised him, deliberately ignored him, desperately checked him...

  He helped me beat up a Chinese rural dog, and with one punch, he was so handsome that I still sympathize with Da Huang to this day; He was scolded by me in public, it's rare for him to take the initiative to make amends with me.

  We've had many midnight snacks together, I took him there because I wanted to raise him as a nocturnal creature.

  Come to think of it, he still owes me two jars of Sebastien sauce...

  It turns out that we have accumulated so many memories that make us laugh just thinking about them.

  And those jokes he told, he's also afraid of ghosts, it's hilarious, and... there are too many to think about. Smiling, when the fate ends, leaving memories that will make you smile whenever you think about them is better than anything else.

  Even if I think it through, but I still look back, I always feel that he is behind me. Gradually, this expectation turned into unease. I don't know why, the closer I get to home, the more uneasy I become, and I always feel like there's someone behind me.

  I took out my makeup mirror and looked at it, but there was no shadow of Wang Yong.

  I am restless, this restlessness is like the primitive beast in my body roaring, it roars of danger, but because it can only roar wildly, it cannot tell you the reason for its roar.

  Although it has gradually degenerated, every person's body has such a beast that foresees danger, some people call it "the sixth sense", and some people call it "the instinct of foreseeing danger".

  The deeper the love, the deeper the wound.

  Love is really a game I can't play.

  Perhaps I like Wang Yong more than I imagined, the ancients said that love is a spell, a spell that bewilders, at first it makes people happy, whether it's used on oneself or on others, these means make people get what they want, but when it backfires, the spell will bite you multiple times.

  Looking up at the sky, the sky is quietly blue. Am I being bitten by the love bug now? I don't know.

  I can only turn over the "Vc" medicine bottle in my hand...